Biodiversity is often mentioned as one concept in popular culture. However, it can be split into different components depending on who you ask. Today, we’re going to explore two different ways of chopping biodiversity up.
Sources for this episode: 1) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Gamma diversity (online) [Accessed 06/03/2021]. 2) Cain, M. L., Bowman, W. D. and Hacker, S. D. (2011), Ecology (2nd edition). Sunderland: Sinauer Associates Ltd. 3) For a formula for Shannon’s index of biodiversity (which I’m going to try and discuss in a future episode), see: Fullick A., Locke, J. and Bircher, P. (2015), A Level Biology for OCR A. Oxford: Oxford University Press.